collate
pronunciation
How to pronounce collate in British English:
UK [kəˈleɪt]
How to pronounce collate in American English:
US [kəˈlet, ˈkɑlˌet, ˈkoˌlet]
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- Verb:
- compare critically; of texts
- to assemble in proper sequence
Word Origin
- collate (v.)
- 1610s, from Latin collatus, irregular past participle of conferre "to bring together," from com- "together" (see com-) + latus (see oblate (n.)), serving as past participle of ferre "to bear" (see infer). Related: Collated; collating.
Example
- 1. Collate what other people say about ......
- 2. The book draws on menzie 's navigational experience , as well as the findings of a team of experts he assembled to collate and decipher an ever-growing body of multilingual , cartographic , and biological evidence .
- 3. These sites collate publicly available information and present it in a user-friendly way .
- 4. Greenmaven is a web service which uses google 's custom search service to collate green news and links from the worldwide web .
- 5. The report is the first to collate 11 different indicators from air and sea temperatures to melting ice each one based on between three and seven data sets , dating back to between 1850 and the 1970s .